This is not the end [this is not the end]

If you can understand it. This is from a song by Gungor, a song by Christina Perri, & listening to an interview [Conan interviewing Jack White].

This is not the end [this is not the end]

This is the end

It is

So very over

I have walked

Through the door

I could walk back

There is no point

In doing that

Though

I’ve been there

And done that

I wanted to do that

However

I don’t want to be

A scratch on a record

Playing the same

Notes

To the same melody

Over

And over

And

Over

Again

While this is the end

I’ve come to it at last

I’m

Gladly terrified

…and yet

This

Is not

The end

Not the end of me

The end of us

This is not the end of me

This is the beginning

One book ends

One movie

Rolls credits

…

And a new movie

A new book

Begins

Where will

This character

This me

Go now?

I’m scared

And I’m excited

Can it be

That what scares me

Is the very point of origin

Of my excitement.

So this is the end

And

This is not the end

[and ok, I’m done now]

May his grace drip from your fingers,
b.e. noll